Panamanian Government,
Doctors Resume Talks
Panamanian Health
Minister Rosario Turner
resumed negotiations on
Friday with public
hospital medical leaders
to solve an over-a-month
strike in demand for
higher salaries.
The meeting started
again despite
yesterday's demand by a
spokesperson for the
National Negotiating
Medical Committee (Comenenal),
organizing the protest,
for direct talks with
President Omar Torrijos.
The doctors also
rejected the Torrijos
proposal of a 20-percent
a ceiling on salary
increases, who said "and
not one cent more."
Turner explained that
all current negotiators
were appointed by the
president and it seems
this convinced strikers
to return to the
negotiating table.
Julio Garcia, a
Comenenal leader, said
negotiations came to a
standstill because the
government gave a final
figure which did not
meet the physicians"
expectations. |
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